"Bulldog" Kelly

“Money and political influence have been too potent, and Kelly is now treading the firm soil and breathing the pure air of a country where all are free—free to make justice a travesty, to treat murder as a joke, and to turn a criminal trial and sentence into a mockery…"—Victoria Colonist.

It would take little less than a full-fledged miracle to uncover a murderer's loot cached near the town of Golden, British Columbia, but if a treasure hunter could match painstaking research with phenomenal luck, he might find himself $4,500 (actually much more at today's values) richer.

This is the money stolen in a wild robbery over a century ago; a rip-roaring gun battle whose shots resounded from the wilds of British Columbia to the national capitals of Canada and the United States When the smoke cleared—six years later—history finally drew the curtain on one of the most unusual criminal cases in provincial record.

Part 1 in this week’s BC Chronicles.

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PHOTO: Golden, B.C., where “Bulldog” Kelly hung out until committing murder.